Speakers
Frank Porporino Ph.D.
Valerie Jenness
John Todd-Kvan
Alison Liebling
Fergus McNeill
Rosemary Ricciardelli
Dr Danielle Rudes
Dr Emily Salisbury
Faye Taxman PhD
Jason M. Williams
Parallel Workshops
This special ‘Meet the Authors’ session is intended to celebrate publication of the 20th Anniversary Edition of ICPA’s scholarly journal Advancing Corrections. ICPA reached out to some of the leading scholars around the world to give their take on core issues facing correctional work, practice and services. We are bringing together ten of the twenty-eight scholars who contributed to the Edition to summarize the gist of their chosen policy or practice issue and highlight how it address one or more of the themes for the Annual Conference. We want to give Conference attendees an opportunity to listen, but importantly, also to question, ask for clarification, or even challenge. Come join this unique gathering for some practice-relevant conversation with our academic colleagues. The ten authors you will meet are (in alphabetical order): Valerie Jenness, John Todd-Kvan, Alison Liebling, Fergus McNeill, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Danielle S. Rudes, Emily J. Salisbury, Faye Taxman, Jason M. Williams and Kevin Wright.
Dr. Emily Salisbury creates cross-sector solutions to improve the lives of system impacted clients and staff. She is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Utah. As one of the founding and leading scholars of the gender-responsive corrections paradigm, she focuses on improving outcomes for justice-involved people and leverages that knowledge to promote trauma-responsive policy solutions. Her expertise is at the intersection of criminology and behavioral health.
Dr. Salisbury is the research director and co-founder of the UN-endorsed Women's Risk Needs Assessments (WRNAs), the only validated, peer-reviewed risk/strengths assessment and classification system designed by and for justice-involved women. The WRNAs highlight the distinct needs and strengths of justice-involved women for government and non-profit entities to identify the empirical-based factors related to women's economic mobility, personal growth, and independent success for their families. The tool has improved the lives of over 50,000 impacted women globally. Dr. Salisbury is also the founder of the first ever mobile health app designed for justice involved women to educate and navigate them toward evidence informed whole health solutions to improve their well-being, the Self-Assessment for Fempowerment app (SAFE app).
The success of the WRNAs opened the door for Dr. Salisbury to recently create the Men's Risk Needs Assessments (MRNAs) to measure and address justice involved men's complex trauma. Her 50+ publications appear in top academic journals, as well as practitioner-oriented newsletters and book chapters. She actively consults with many local, state, federal, and international correctional agencies on implementing gender-responsive, evidence-based strategies.
"Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D., is a University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a health service criminologist. She is recognized for her work in the development of seamless systems-of-care models that link the criminal justice system with other health care and other service delivery systems and reengineering probation and parole supervision services. She pioneered the development of translational tools to ease the implementation of research findings into practice such as the RNR Simulation Tool (www.gmuace.org/tools) to improve utilization of assessments in practice and treatment matching protocols and the Cascade of Care planning and system measures toolkit (https://www.jcoinctc.org/cascade-of-care). Dr. Taxman has published more than 250 articles.
She is the current Principal Investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse ‘s Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) Coordination and Translation Center. She is author of Implementing Evidence-Based Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (Springer, 2012 with Steven Belenko) and Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record (with Pamela Lattimore and Beth Huebner, Routledge Press, 2020). The American Society of Criminology's has recognized her with the Division of Sentencing and Corrections’ Distinguished Scholar twice, Rita Warren and Ted Palmer Differential Intervention Treatment award, Joan McCord Award (Division of Experimental Criminology), a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Sentencing and Corrections (2019) and August Vollmer Award (2023). She has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice."
Jason M. Williams, Ph.D. is a Professor of Justice Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. An activist scholar and qualitative researcher, his work bridges academia and community engagement to advance racial, ethnic, and gender justice within the criminal legal system. His research focuses on reentry, mass incarceration, policing, and critical criminology, with a particular emphasis on the lived experiences of communities disproportionately impacted by systems of punishment and social control.
Williams has published widely on intersectionality, race, and social justice, co‑editing key works such as Black Males and the Criminal Justice System, Abolish Criminology, and Survivor Criminology. His fieldwork includes studies in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, where he examined the relationship between police institutions and Black communities following nationally significant cases of police violence.
Committed to praxis, Williams has collaborated with initiatives such as the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and the Open Society Foundations to expand restorative and transformative justice practices. He co‑chairs Passaic County’s inaugural Restorative Justice Hub and serves on the New Jersey Coordinating Council on Restorative Justice, where he helps design youth diversion and reentry programs across the state.
Recognized as a national voice on justice reform, Williams has been quoted in major news outlets including the New York Times, Newsweek, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal‑Constitution, and NJ.com. His ongoing scholarship seeks to reimagine the meaning of justice by centering equity, community healing, and the lived knowledge of those most directly affected by state and structural violence.
